Research interests

My main research areas are the philosophy of imagination and creativity, empathy, the philosophy of fiction, and philosophical methodology. I am currently working on a book concerning the nature, structure and epistemic value of our experience of literary fiction.

Publications

• Two Notions of Creativity, in: Pfisterer, Chr./Rathgeb, N./Schmidt, E., Wittgenstein and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Hans-Johann Glock, Routledge 2022, pp. 254-271.
• Literary Fiction and Imagination (together with Magdalena Balcerak Jackson), in: Engisch, P./Langkau, J., The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition, Routledge 2022, pp. 140-156.
• Introduction to volume The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition (together with Patrik Engisch), Routledge 2022, pp. 1-22.
• Komik und Anschaulichkeit (together with Tilmann Koeppe and Tobias Klauk), in: Kaul, S./Kindt, T., Medienaesthetik der Komik Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn (in print).
• Truth Matters, Aesthetically, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics LVIII/XIV, no. 2 (2021): pp. 114-128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.224 (together with Tilmann Koeppe).
• Two Kinds of Imaginative Vividness, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021): pp. 1-15 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/can.2020.54).
• On Imagining Being Someone Else, in: Kind, A./Badura Chr. (eds.): Epistemic Uses of Imagination, Routledge 2021, pp. 260-278.
• The Empathic Skill Fiction Can't Teach Us, Philosophical Psychology, 33: 3 (2020), pp. 313-331, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2020.1731446.
• Wie kann Anschaulichkeit dazu beitragen, dass wir von Sachtexten lernen?, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes Vol. 66, No. 2 (2019): pp. 132-142.
• Komik und Anschaulichkeit (together with Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Koeppe), in Medienästhetik der Komik, edited by Susanne Kaul and Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn (in print).
• Thought Experiments from Fiction, in: Bornmüller, F./Franzen, J./Lessau, M. (eds.): Literature as Thought Experiment? Perspectives from Philosophy and Literary Studies, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, (2019): pp. 57-69.
• Quellen des Wissens: Imagination (together with Margherita Arcangeli), in: Martin Grajner/Guido Melchior (eds.), Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Metzler Verlag (2019): pp. 159-165.
• Quellen des Wissens: Intuitionen, in: Martin Grajner/Guido Melchior (eds.), Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, Metzler Verlag 2019, pp: 152-158.
• Fiction, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self (together with Tilmann Koeppe), DIEGESIS 6, Nr. 1 (2017), pp. 46-57.
• Intuitionen in der analytischen Philosophie, Zuercher Philosophische Vortraege 10, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Rother, Schwabe: Basel (2017).
• Metaphilosophy and the Role of Intuitions, Topoi (2016): DOI 10.1007/s11245-015-9360-1.
• Ein gelungenes Handbuch zur Fiktionalitaet (Rezension zu: Tobias Klauk / Tilmann Koeppe (Hg.): Fiktionalitaet. Ein interdisziplinaeres Handbuch. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2014.) In: IASLonline (04.04.2016)
• The Method of Reflective Equilibrium and Intuitions, in: Hoeltje, Miguel; Spitzley, Thomas; Spohn, Wolfgang, Was sollen wir tun? - Sektionsbeitraege des achten internationalen Kongresses der Gesellschaft fuer Analytische Philosophie e.V. Duisburg-Essen, 352-364. ISBN 978-3-00-042332-1 (2013).
• Towards a Non-Rationalist Inflationist Account of Intuitions, Essays in Philosophy, 13, Nr. 1 (January 2012).
• Appealing to Intuitions (Dissertation):\\ https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/3544/6/JuliaLangkauPhDThesis.pdf (2012).
• Concepts - New Perspectives, Special Volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien (ed. together with Christian Nimtz), Nr. 80 (2010).
• Concepts in Philosophy - A Rough Geography (together with Christian Nimtz), in: Concepts - New Perspectives, Special Volume of Grazer Philosophische Studien, Nr. 80 (2010)